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Wrong thread. Probably need to ask either L-boy or Peter Graves. ;)Any good gladiator movie recommendations?
Open Range...another great one! Duval and Costner made a great team. Boss "Blue Bonnet" Spearman and Charlie Postlewait. Great scene when Charlie walks up to the gun hand that killed Mose and said he enjoyed it, drew his pistol and shot him in the forehead! Good cinema gun battle ensued. Annette Benning had a good part, also. I also,liked that Boss sold his cattle and bought a saloon. A dream of mine!Watched Red River this morning... forgot how much I liked it.
Also, a modern one that gets overlooked that I love is Open Range.
I just loved how plain spoken and simple they all were in Open Range... they all played their roles perfectly.Wrong thread. Probably need to ask either L-boy or Peter Graves. ;)
Open Range...another great one! Duval and Costner made a great team. Boss "Blue Bonnet" Spearman and Charlie Postlewait. Great scene when Charlie walks up to the gun hand that killed Mose and said he enjoyed it, drew his pistol and shot him in the forehead! Good cinema gun battle ensued. Annette Bennington had a good part, also. I also,liked that Boss sold his cattle and bought a saloon. A dream of mine!
"The Searchers" is the best Western I've ever seen. Just completely epic in story and cinematography. It really was Ford and Wayne at their very best.
"How are you going to get down that hill?"Here's a lesser known western for you all...Hombre, starring Paul Newman. Pretty good film and cast that included Richard Boone as the heavy. Hard not to like most anything Paul Newman was in!
Funny to me, but Newman played a "half breed" in this one; today, several advocacy groups would go wild over that characterization instead of him being described as "multi-racial!"
Here's a lesser known western for you all...Hombre, starring Paul Newman. Pretty good film and cast that included Richard Boone as the heavy. Hard not to like most anything Paul Newman was in!
Funny to me, but Newman played a "half breed" in this one; today, several advocacy groups would go wild over that characterization instead of him being described as "multi-racial!"
You got it! MJM, you are an aficionado!"How are you going to get down that hill?"
Absolutely, Goon. Every one you mentioned was what I watched religiously. An interesting note...Chuck Connors of The Rifleman fame was a pro baseball player in the Dodgers organization before he took up acting. He had a few big screen parts (e.g. Disney's Ol' Yeller), but was primarily known for his role as Lucas McCain. There was also a rumor that he had done some early work in gay porn. In fact, an old high school buddy had a Hustler magazine with some still shots of supposedly Connors and another guy "in action!" I can only hope it was some sort of early photoshopping, but that was hurtful! I still can't watch a Rifleman rerun without thinking about that!I think Paladin was known as the ugliest actor in Hollywood. Shane, True Grit, High-noon, anything with The Duke especially if Maureen O'Hara was with him, Steve McQueen, Eastwood's spaghetti westerns, Chuck Conerly's show, Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty was can't miss TV....good times.
Favorite of all time was Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, probably because of that woman....lol. Not quite a western, The Sting is a close second.
Shane was great! Unfortunately, I don't remember a lot that Alan Ladd did beyond Shane. Jack Palance was a great villain.Shane was an awesome movie.
On a related note, my kids used to love to watch "Shakiest Gun in the West."
I won't hold that against you. Got some good ones. Who doesn't like Josey Wales? "Buzzard's gotta eat, same as the worm!" I always liked the Magnificent Seven. Not necessarily a Yul Brenner fan, but Charles Bronson and his movies were among those that I enjoyed.I'm by far more of an Eastwood Fan over the Duke:
1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Outlaw Josey Wales
3. FistFul of Dollars
4. Unforgiven (same story as Josey Wales just takes longer to get angry)
5. A Few Dollars More
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7.Tombstone
8. Once Upon A Time In The West
9. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
10. True Grit (1969)
Honorable Mentions: True Grit (2010), Open Range, Django Unchained, The Searchers, Silverado, Appaloosa, Jeremaih Johnson
Dishonorable Mention: Wild Wild West (1999)